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Originally posted by gandolf989 I'm tempted to get Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 (WS) -- Workstation Edition, just to see if I can install Oracle 9i on it without all these peoblems.

I don't have it either, but I'm contemplating an upgrade.

Jeff would you post a link advising people on software to get if they wanted to go cold turkey on Windoze? You seem to be the expert on RH9.

Oh, I don't know about that. I run RH9 at home and RH EL 3.0 at work. I went cold-turkey from W2K (at home) a little over a year ago because I was sick and tired of wasting time with virus scanners, pop-up blockers, and adware removers. For the things I want to do at home, RH9 is just fine for me. Most of the software that come with RH9 is fine. The only apps I have installed (above the base RH9) are:
Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Cisco VPN
Apache
Oracle 9/10

Oh, I don't know about that. I run RH9 at home and RH EL 3.0 at work. I went cold-turkey from W2K (at home) a little over a year ago because I was sick and tired of wasting time with virus scanners, pop-up blockers, and adware removers. For the things I want to do at home, RH9 is just fine for me. Most of the software that come with RH9 is fine. The only apps I have installed (above the base RH9) are:
Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Cisco VPN
Apache
Oracle 9/10 [/B]

One of the things that is keeping me from making the switch is that I am the editor of an outdoor newsletter in my spare time. www.pittecp.org

Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 , and believe it or not, Word Sucks!!!!!!

Originally posted by gandolf989
Jeff, brace yourself, I do the newsletter in Word 2000 , and believe it or not, Word Sucks!!!!!!

I'm haven't decided on what to switch to yet. Any ideas?

RH9 comes with OpenOffice, a MS Office clone. In theory, you can import Word documents and work with them. I did my resume with it and it looks OK. It might be OK for something like a newsletter, but you'd have to futz with it.

As an alternative (albeit a sucky one), there is WINE, a windows emulator. You basically end up running a Windows window on your linux box and you can run windows apps.

Also, you could always dual-boot Windows and Linux. Not quite cold turkey, but gets you exposed to the technology. Better still, get yourself a new computer! (or get your work to get you a laptop since you always have to be on-call!)